MCCCD Program Description

Major: 5607 Catalog Year: 2025-2026 Effective Term: 2025 Fall Last Admit Term: 9999 Award: CCL Total Credits: 39 CIP Code: 52.0903	Primary College: Initiating College: Scottsdale Community College Program Availability: Not Found Program Availability: College-Specific Program Availability: College-Specific: SC Field of Interest: Business, Entrepreneurialism and Management Instructional Council: Hospitality GPA: 2.00
SOC Code: Upon completion of this certificate, students may pursue a career as: 11-1021.00 General and Operations Managers 39-7012.00 Travel Guides 11-9081.00 Lodging Managers 11-3121.00 Human Resources Managers 11-9199.00 Managers, All Other

Description: The Certificate of Completion (CCL) in Hospitality: Tourism Development and Management is designed to prepare graduates for careers in the tourism industry. The curriculum provides professional skills in tourism development and management, events and meeting management, ecotourism, information systems, marketing, human resources, financial management, and hospitality law. Graduates acquire a specific set of skills that focus on the interaction of tourism with the economy, environment, and people. Students may apply these courses towards the Associate in Applied Science (AAS) in Hospitality: Tourism Development and Management (3101).

Learning Outcomes
1. Create favorable guest experiences by using professional service management techniques in a hospitality environment. (ACC111, HRM110, HRM145, HRM146, HRM150, HRM160, HRM235, HRM250, HRM265, HRM270, HRM280, HRM290, HRM295AA, HRM295AB, HRM295AC, REC120, REC210) 2. Demonstrate the essential functions of hospitality industry management, including human resources, guest services, property management, and hospitality and tourism law. (HRM235, HRM260, HRM270, HRM280, HRM290, HRM295AA, HRM295AB, HRM295AC) 3. Communicate in an effective manner, consistent with the professional standards of the hospitality industry. (HRM110, HRM145, HRM146, HRM260, HRM295AA, HRM295AB, HRM295AC, REC120, REC210) 4. Integrate professional, ethical, and legal standards into hospitality business practice. (ACC111, HRM110, HRM145, HRM146, HRM235, HRM260, HRM265, HRM270, HRM280, HRM290, HRM295AA, HRM295AB, HRM295AC, REC120) 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the elements and current trends that comprise the hospitality industry. (HRM145, HRM146, HRM150, HRM160, HRM235, HRM250, HRM260, HRM270, HRM290, HRM295AA, HRM295AB, HRM295AC, REC120, REC210) 6. Critically analyze a wide range of problems in the hospitality industry to generate applicable solutions. (ACC111, HRM150, HRM235, HRM250, HRM260, HRM265, HRM270, HRM280, HRM290, HRM295AA, HRM295AB, HRM295AC) 7. Organize special events from concept through completion, including planning, coordination, marketing, financing and risk management. (ACC111, HRM110, HRM145, HRM146, HRM265, HRM270) 8. Manage the planning and execution of meetings, conventions and exhibitions, including coordination, logistics, venue selection, budgeting. (ACC111, HRM145, HRM146, HRM160, HRM265) 9. Demonstrate an understanding of tourism sectors, consumer behavior, and factors that influence tourism and explain the interaction of tourism with the economy, environment and people. (HRM110, HRM160, HRM270, HRM290, GCU121WG) 10. Employ analytical and decision making processes essential to manage financial aspects of hospitality and tourism operations. (ACC111, HRM150, HRM160, HRM250, HRM265) 11. Relate the history and emergence of ecotourism to the establishment of policies and management practices associated with sustainable development. (HRM160, HRM270, HRM290, REC210) 12. Manage the delivery of leisure services in public, commercial, and independent sectors, particularly in an urban setting. (HRM110, HRM160, REC120, REC210)

Program Notes
Students must earn a grade of C or better in all courses within the program.

Required Courses

ACC111 Accounting Principles I (3) OR
+ HRM265 Financial Management for Hospitality and Tourism (3) 3
Note: Choose accounting course in accordance with your advisor`s recommendation and university transfer requirements.

HRM110 Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism Management 3
HRM145 Events Management 3
+ HRM146 International Meetings, Conventions and Exhibitions 3
HRM150 Hospitality and Tourism Information Systems I 3
HRM160 Tourism Principles and Practices 3
+ HRM260 Hospitality Human Resource Management 3
+ HRM270 Hospitality Marketing 3
+ HRM280 Hospitality and Tourism Law 3
+ HRM290 Ecotourism 3
REC210 Leisure Delivery Systems 3

Credits: 33

Restricted Electives
GCU121WG World Geography: People, Places, and Culture 3 + HRM235 Club Management 3 + HRM250 Hospitality and Tourism Information Systems II 3 + HRM295AA Hospitality Internship (1) OR + HRM295AB Hospitality Internship (2) OR + HRM295AC Hospitality Internship (3) 1-3 REC120 Leisure and the Quality of Life 3	Credits: 6

General Electives
	Credits:

+ indicates course has prerequisites and/or corequisites.
++ indicates that any suffixed course may be selected.

MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date: February 25, 2025

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